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In Moss’s view, all that Blister needed to know was how to get babies out; getting them in was no part of the trade. The nearest she ever came to telling Blister was at Christmastide when she went on, with a radiant smile, about a woman being with child of the Holy Ghost. This made Blister very frightened; she had nightmares of being confronted, when she least expected it, by something inexpressibly fierce in a sheet

I'm half way through and I can't think of a single good thing to say about it.

I'm getting a little tired of the freckles on Jesus' eyelids. Is that a thing?

I can honestly say, cross my heart, that I've never thought of Jesus with freckles.

How many times is this poxy book going to use the term "existence tissue" ("tissue" for short)? 161? Oh. my. word. I might need painkillers.

Elizabeth is incredibly annoying. I wish Freddy had slugged her in the library.

I've had enough tentacles to last me a lifetime.

Drat. If I'm this annoyed on p.39, how annoyed will I be if I continue?

Since Goodreads insists on my wanting to see the Hottest Books of Summer I had a look. Grocery store fare as far as I can tell. Nor do I need Hot Reading Challenge Tips from Pros Who Read More than 100 Books a Year. There are no tips. Just read.

I don't know how he had time for party business and multiple affairs. "Enough! Enough!...Otherwise I'll end up [wrung out] like a washcloth."

Just so.

Half way in and I'm about to abandon ship. As an introduction to New Right thought prior to 2004, and to GRECE in particular, it has some uses even though the author is far from impartial, but his observations on religion - more bone-picking than analysis - are notably shallow and uninformed. Besides, there's a limit to how much snide anti-Semitism I can stand.

I'd be happier if I never had to read another word about Philadelphia.

I can feel myself beginning to bog down. I'm up to my ankles in mud and the neekerbreekers are after me.

Come on, Goodreads. Get your collective finger out and fix my stats. The zeros are getting on my nerves.

I can't believe that it's taken Appleby half the book to figure out what I knew from the start. Good grief.

What is the point of this thing? I'm half way through and nothing has happened.

The word 'wobble' (and any variant thereof) is amusing enough the first time or two - maybe, if you're three - but using it 31 times in a short book is A Bit Much.

The word 'wobble' (and any variant thereof) is amusing enough the first time or two - maybe, if you're three - but using it 31 times in one book is A Bit Much.

This is going to be a horrid struggle. I hadn't expected to dislike Richie quite so intensely.